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Sunday, February 08, 2004

Anime

Two nerds discuss anime. I'm not really into anime, so all the more reason for me to blog about it, I suppose. On the Captain's recommendation, I looked up an episode of “Samurai Jack.” It happened to be episode 3 and was a great riff on Seven Samurai with Jack as all 7 samurai, I guess. The animation is inventive and electric and non-repetitive. I love the fact that there's so little dialogue in this episode. Another episode I watched was the one where Jack is transformed into a chicken by a mysterious and irritable stranger and is pressed into the cock-fighting circuit. It's a really hilarious episode.